The flow of young people's singing and drinking water

Chapter 259 Tieling City

"Senior brother, you have to reimburse me for my 100 taels of gold." Yan Xiluo cried sadly.

For him, these 100 taels of gold were not a big expense. He mainly used 100 taels of gold to bribe people. He felt a little uncomfortable.

Yang Ming slowly stood up and dusted himself off.

Walking to Yan Xiluo's side, Yang Ming patted him on the shoulder: "Thank you for your hard work." After saying that, he took out a ticket from his arms and stuffed it into Yan Xiluo's hand.

"This" Yan Xiluo was stunned for a while. He rubbed his eyes in disbelief: "200 taels of gold!? Senior brother, aren't you known as an iron rooster and never pluck a dime? Why, did you change your gender today?"

This 200-tael business ticket was given to Yang Ming by Mu Chunfeng before leaving, saying that it was thanks to Yang Ming that he had captured the silver snake and iron sulfur glass, and as a reward for the Mu family's offerings.

This business ticket is similar to a check on Blue Star. You just need to fill in the amount on it and stamp it with Mu Chunfeng's gold seal, and you can exchange it directly.

"Haha." Su Yuluo pursed her lips and chuckled: "Fool, this is the money your senior brother gave us."

"Partial money?"

Suddenly, Yan Xiluo thought of something. He quickly ran to Yang Ming's side and thanked: "Thank you very much, senior brother. When senior brother gets married, I will naturally prepare better gifts for him."

Yang Ming curled his lips and smiled: "Junior brother is interested."

Pointing to the city not far away, Yang Ming urged: "Hurry up and get closer to me. I will use my inner power to cover you. Even the plague will not be a problem."

"Thank you sir."

Before Xiao Se and the others could speak, Zhu Baokun quickly moved closer to Yang Ming, fearing that he would be infected with the plague after entering the city.

After burning incense, everyone walked to the city gate.

My colleague Xuan Jia man said it normally. The entrances and exits of the entire city were surrounded by thick iron walls.

"Alas~" Seeing this, Su Yuluo sighed helplessly: "This Tieling City, my master and I lived here for a while. This is an iron ore area near Nanjue, and most of the people living in the city are miners. And their families. I never thought it would be like this."

"Iron mine!" Xiao Se was shocked. As a prince, he was very familiar with what the iron mine represented.The army needs iron for fighting, and the people also need iron for production.

In addition to salt, iron ore is also a key material controlled by the imperial court.

"It seems that the crisis in Nanjue Imperial City has brought the entire country to a standstill." Xiao Se did not believe what the general said. "As for whether it is a plague, it is unknown."

"Regardless of whether it is true or not, you have to be careful." Yang Ming warned aloud.

There were no soldiers guarding the entire city. Yang Ming carried Zhu Baokun and easily crossed the city wall.The rest of the people also relied on their own martial arts to easily climb over.

Entering the city, you are greeted by a putrid smell.

"It stinks." Everyone quickly covered their mouths and noses.

Yang Ming strengthened the thickness of the internal force barrier to isolate all these odors.

"It's okay now. This stink is undoubtedly emitted by the corpses." Yang Ming frowned and said, "It's just that this level of stink cannot be emitted by just a few corpses."

While they were talking, an old man in ragged clothes and with a haggard face crawled up to them.

He held the broken bowl in his hand and begged in a low voice: "Masters, can you give me a bite of food? I haven't had a bite of food in half a month."

"This" Su Yuluo felt pity. Just as he was about to take out the few dry food left in his arms, he saw Yan Xiluo's hand stopping him.

"What's wrong?" Su Yuluo asked confused.Yan Xiluo shook his head: "There are many people around, and they are all moving here. If you provide food, we will become the target of public criticism. Even if we drive them away, this old man has solid food in his hand. I’m afraid I will also become the object of their envy.”

Su Yuluo also understood Yan Xiluo's intentions. Doing good deeds at this moment not only harmed themselves, but also harmed the old man in front of them.

Upon hearing this, Lei Wujie, who originally wanted to do good, stopped what he was doing.

"Old man, we don't have food either." Yang Ming shook his head.

"However, if you tell us what happened in the city, I can tell you where to find food." Yang Ming thought for a while and said.

"Really?" A glint flashed in the old man's eyes, and he straightened up with excitement.

"Yes, as long as you are willing to tell me, I will definitely tell you." Yang Ming affirmed.

"Okay, I'll say it." The old man whispered.

It wasn't that he didn't want to speak louder, it was just that he was too hungry and had no energy left.

He slowly said: "Sir, the incident started a month ago: at that time, a group of workers disappeared inexplicably in the iron mine outside the city. After that, the officials sent a group of people to look for them."

"One day later, that group of people came back, but they all had unusual rashes on their bodies, and they died not long after. Long gray hair even grew on the bodies. Some people said that they were feathers. Some people say that they have offended the land god and were punished. But none of us have contracted this disease."

"Later, the officials locked us up in this city and cut off our food and grass."

After saying this in one breath, the old man closed his eyes, leaned back and fell down.

"The long hair growing on the body must be a fungal infection. It's a bit puzzling that it hasn't been transmitted to other people." Yang Ming thought about it in his mind.

"He's dead." Yan Xiluo checked the old man's body and sighed.

"Let's go as soon as possible." Yang Ming didn't know whether this was the right thing to do, but staying here was definitely not a wise decision.

This world does not have any medical system. Once a large-scale epidemic breaks out, many people will die.Although the old man said that no one among them was sick, who knew if he was hiding it.

Not long after they walked out, the old man's body was dragged away by a group of hungry men.

"What are they dragging people away for?"

Lei Wujie, who lives in fine clothes and fine food, and because he doesn't know much, doesn't know what he wants to do.He even thought he was going to bury the old man.

However, Yang Ming's words completely shattered his imagination: "Have you ever thought about why people here have been without food for a month and are still alive today?"

"Why?" Lei Wujie asked confused.

"Think about it, how Tian Mozhi, who was beside Mr. Mu, survived in the first place." Yang Ming reminded.

"Tian Mozhi"

Lei Wujie suddenly felt sick in his stomach. He had heard Yang Ming talk about Tian Mozhi on the boat, so he naturally knew what he had done.

"Let's go, there is no humanity here. All we can do is to prevent this kind of thing from happening again in the future. Go back as soon as possible. The top priority is to integrate our forces and completely eliminate the underworld."

"Yes!" Not only Lei Wujie, but everyone also nodded heavily.

(End of this chapter)